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silver mound

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noun

  1. a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.


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Sunnyvale, Forty miles south of San Francisco in the orchard land of the Santa Clara Valley, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto, is a field of pure gold with a silver mound in the centre.

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